Undersea volcano threatens southern Italy: report

Undersea volcano threatens southern Italy: report

A vulcanologist has warned that the Marsili volcano -- Europe's largest undersea volcano -- could disintegrate and unleash a tsunami that would
engulf southern Italy "at any time".

"Our latest research shows that the volcano is not structurally solid, its walls are fragile, the magma chamber is of sizable dimensions," he said.
"All that tells us that the volcano is active and could begin erupting at any time."

The undersea Marsili, 9,800 feet tall and located some 90 miles southwest of Naples, has not erupted since the start of recorded history. It is 44
miles long and 19 miles wide, and its crater is about a quarter mile below the surface of the Tyrrhenian Sea.

I posted in this forum as I'm still not hearing anything about it on the television news and since it's hit every other news source, well, something
seems fishy here and I hope to get to the bottom of it.

Could it be either the original report is a bogus hyped up report? Or in fact the television news isn't interested in starting a panic? (No way
right?)

I mean it might be nothing but it seems really irregular to me. Why would something seemingly so important be so ignored on nightly news? In fact
the evening news is on now - I'm listening to it as I type - and still hearing nothing.

Why all the Fear Mongering? Could this all be a tactic to divert attention from the Pope and the pedophile scandal???

Interesting to me this was in the written news, but, I heard nothing about it on the morning or afternoon news here in Sicily. Maybe as so many more
watch the news instead of reading? I don't know but something just doesn't add up here. Not wanting to cause a panic maybe? I'll see what
happens on tonight's local news.

Etna, on the other hand, the volcano that lives right outside my window is calm, putting up a puff or two of smoke and steam every so often but
quieter than I'm used to.

Not sure if that's good or bad either, but, I'll keep an eye out and see what I can bring to the board as it happens (or not)...

(Pictures included taken just this afternoon from my front and side door.)

Top crater Etna, Catania side.

Ionian Sea (again Catania Side)

So, troubles' brewing (possibly) to the north! If I can see the action from down here by Etna then we're really in trouble! So, no live updates I
hope!

I'm glad they evaluated this region, as not too long ago on the "Fragile Earth" forum I posted a topic depicting a Caldera-like Feature which was
the Tyrrhenian Sea itself. Numerous volcanoes dotted around the outside of the Caldera with a Central Active Volcano in the Centre.

In the Tyrrhenian Sea, about halfway Naples and Sicily, Italian researchers have an enormous undersea volcano discovered that they "Il Marsili" have
called. The volcano is at the base about 65 km long and 40 km wide. This means that it is the largest volcano in Europe. The volcano reaches a height
of about 3 km, but because the Mediterranean spot is very deep, top left are still some 500 meters from the sea surface.

The leader of the research, Marani, the Tyrrhenian Sea is the latest in the Mediterranean basin and the area therefore no geological stability. That
view is also shared by Il Marsili itself, which has built its huge size probably within the past 2000 years.

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